summary: The Catechism distinguishes the Church's living teaching office from private interpretation and frames official teaching authority as service to the Word of God.

keywords:
magisterium
authority
teaching office
official doctrine
private interpretation


summary: The Catechism explains that catholic means universal: the Church is catholic because Christ is present in her and because she is sent on mission to the whole human race.

keywords:
Catholic means universal
universal Church
mission
whole human race
all peoples


summary: The Catechism describes the Church's special relationship with the Jewish people, who first heard the Word of God, and situates Christians and Jews within a shared hope ordered toward God's promises.

keywords:
Jewish people
Judaism
Israel
covenant
God's promises
Old Covenant
Abraham


summary: The Catechism teaches that bishops and priests, by virtue of Holy Orders, exercise the ministry of reconciliation and have the power to forgive sins in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

keywords:
confession
sacramental absolution
reconciliation
priest
bishop
Holy Orders
forgiveness of sins


summary: Human dignity is rooted in the human person created in the image of God, not in usefulness, productivity, legal status, or social approval.

keywords:
human dignity
image of God
personhood
intrinsic worth
not utility


summary: Freedom is real and morally serious, but it is ordered toward truth and the good; good intention alone does not make every chosen act good.

keywords:
freedom
moral acts
intention
object
circumstances
responsibility


summary: Conscience must be respected and formed; it is not a license for coercion, manipulation, or ignoring truth.

keywords:
conscience
formation
truth
moral judgment
religious freedom


summary: The common good concerns the social conditions that allow persons and groups to reach fulfillment, including respect for the person, social well-being, and peace.

keywords:
common good
social conditions
peace
respect for persons
public life


summary: All persons share equal dignity, and social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on grounds including race or color is incompatible with God's design and must be overcome.

keywords:
race
racial discrimination
color
ethnicity
equal dignity
equality
fundamental rights
social discrimination
cultural discrimination


summary: Marriage and family are central social realities with duties of fidelity, care, education, and responsibility across generations.

keywords: family marriage children parents society elderly


summary: Human life must be respected and protected from conception; direct abortion is treated as gravely contrary to that protection.

keywords:
abortion
unborn life
conception
sanctity of life
direct killing


summary: Those who are sick or dying retain dignity and must not be abandoned; euthanasia is rejected while ordinary care and proportionate treatment remain important.

keywords:
euthanasia
dying
sick persons
ordinary care
proportionate treatment
end of life


summary: The Catechism teaches that homosexual acts are contrary to natural law and cannot be approved, while persons with homosexual inclinations must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity, avoiding unjust discrimination, and are called, like all Christians, to chastity and self-mastery.

keywords:
homosexuality
homosexual acts
gay
lesbian
same-sex
chastity
respect compassion sensitivity
natural law
unjust discrimination


summary: The Catechism connects marital love, openness to life, and responsible parenthood, and rejects contraception as a deliberate rendering of the marital act infertile.

keywords:
contraception
marriage
openness to life
responsible parenthood
fertility


summary: Infertility is a real suffering, but reproductive technologies must respect the dignity of the child, spouses, embryos, and the marital act.

keywords:
IVF
infertility
procreation
embryo dignity
fertility treatment
marital act


summary: Truthfulness, honesty, and respect for reputation are moral duties; institutional communication must not hide or falsify morally relevant facts.

keywords: truthfulness lying deception communications reputation honesty


summary: Gaudium et Spes presents conscience as the inner place where the person is summoned to seek and obey the good, while still needing formation and truth.

keywords:
conscience
human person
truth
moral law
formation


summary: Gaudium et Spes teaches that Christ reveals the human person to himself and illuminates human dignity and vocation.

keywords:
Christ
human person
dignity
anthropology
vocation


summary: Social life and the common good must serve the dignity and flourishing of persons, not absorb persons into collective utility.

keywords:
common good
human community
person
social life
dignity


summary: Gaudium et Spes condemns attacks on life and dignity, including violence, exploitation, and degrading treatment of persons.

keywords:
human dignity
violence
exploitation
life
grave violations


summary: Lumen Gentium speaks of the Church's necessity and mission while also requiring freedom and sincerity rather than merely external belonging.

keywords:
Church
universal mission
salvation
belonging
freedom
sincerity


summary: Lumen Gentium describes the teaching authority of bishops and the pope, useful for distinguishing official doctrine from private or institutional implementations.

keywords:
magisterium
bishop
pope
teaching authority
official doctrine


summary: Dignitatis Humanae teaches that the human person has a right to religious freedom, especially immunity from coercion in religious matters.

keywords:
religious freedom
coercion
conscience
conversion pressure
immunity


summary: Religious freedom includes the duty to seek truth and adhere to it personally; respect for freedom does not mean truth is irrelevant.

keywords:
seek truth
religious freedom
conscience
duty
truth


summary: Faith must be a free response; coercion contradicts the nature of religious assent.

keywords:
free faith
coercion
assent
conversion
religious act


summary: The Church carries out her mission by proclaiming truth and bearing witness while respecting religious freedom and avoiding coercion.

keywords:
mission
witness
evangelization
religious freedom
no coercion
truth


summary: Evangelium Vitae strongly condemns the direct and voluntary killing of innocent human beings.

keywords:
killing
innocent life
sanctity of life
grave wrong


summary: Evangelium Vitae treats direct abortion as a grave moral disorder and rejects attempts to normalize it as ordinary healthcare.

keywords:
abortion
direct abortion
unborn life
healthcare
grave moral disorder


summary: Evangelium Vitae rejects euthanasia while allowing morally legitimate refusal of treatments that are disproportionate or excessively burdensome.

keywords:
euthanasia
assisted suicide
disproportionate treatment
comfort care
end of life


summary: Evangelium Vitae addresses cooperation with unjust laws and the need to avoid formal cooperation in grave attacks on life.

keywords:
cooperation
law
abortion
conscience
public policy


summary: The Compendium grounds social doctrine in the dignity of the human person, solidarity, and integral human development.

keywords:
social doctrine
human dignity
solidarity
development
person


summary: The Compendium explains the principles of the common good, universal destination of goods, subsidiarity, participation, and solidarity.

keywords:
common good
subsidiarity
solidarity
participation
social principles


summary: Subsidiarity protects local responsibility and smaller communities from being swallowed by distant or centralized control.

keywords:
subsidiarity
local responsibility
centralization
community
institutions


summary: Work is for the person, not the person for work; labor policy must respect worker dignity and not reduce people to output.

keywords:
work
worker dignity
labor
employment
productivity


summary: Dignitas Infinita presents human dignity as intrinsic, infinite in worth, and not dependent on circumstance or recognition by others.

keywords:
infinite dignity
human dignity
intrinsic worth
person


summary: Dignitas Infinita surveys grave violations of dignity, including threats to life, exploitation, abuse, marginalization, and abandonment of vulnerable persons.

keywords:
grave violations
human dignity
abuse
poverty
violence
vulnerable persons


summary: Antiqua et Nova calls for accountability, transparency, privacy, and human responsibility in AI systems rather than blind trust in technical alignment.

keywords:
AI ethics
accountability
transparency
privacy
audit
human responsibility


summary: Antiqua et Nova warns that AI used in education, formation, and vulnerable settings must support human judgment rather than replace conscience or care.

keywords:
AI education
formation
conscience
human judgment
vulnerable users


summary: Antiqua et Nova highlights healthcare, work, and social risks from AI, stressing human oversight and protection of vulnerable persons.

keywords:
AI healthcare
human oversight
work
vulnerable persons
automation


summary: Dignitas Personae explains that procreation technologies must respect the dignity of spouses, the child, and embryonic human life; this is central to IVF questions.

keywords:
IVF
embryo
procreation
fertility
Dignitas Personae
spouses


summary: Fides et Ratio rejects a false opposition between faith and reason and supports honest inquiry ordered toward truth.

keywords:
faith and reason
truth
science
inquiry
philosophy


summary: Fides et Ratio encourages serious inquiry and responsible theological/philosophical work rather than suppressing difficult questions.

keywords: questions inquiry truth philosophy theology


summary: Nostra Aetate describes the spiritual bond between Christians and Jews, rejects presenting Jews as rejected or accursed by God, and deplores antisemitism.

keywords:
Nostra Aetate
Jewish people
Jews
antisemitism
not rejected
not accursed
dialogue


summary: The Gifts and the Calling reflects on the theological relationship between the Church's universal saving faith in Christ and God's never-revoked covenantal gifts to Israel.

keywords:
Jewish covenant
universal salvation
Christ
Israel
Romans 11
theological relationship


summary: The Gifts and the Calling says the Catholic Church does not conduct or support specific institutional mission work directed toward Jews, while Christians may still bear humble and sensitive witness to Christ.

keywords:
Jews
Jewish mission
conversion
evangelization
witness
no institutional mission
proselytism


summary: The Gifts and the Calling emphasizes dialogue, mutual knowledge, cooperation, and opposition to antisemitism as practical goals in Catholic-Jewish relations.

keywords:
Catholic Jewish dialogue
mutual knowledge
cooperation
antisemitism
Shoah
respect


summary: Rerum Novarum frames the modern labor question as a moral problem involving employers, workers, poverty, competition, ownership, and the duties of justice.

keywords:
capital and labor
labor question
employers
workers
competition
poverty
economic justice


summary: Rerum Novarum defends private property and family responsibility while rejecting economic arrangements that rob workers of the fruits and security of their labor.

keywords:
private property
ownership
family wage
worker savings
economic freedom
labor


summary: Rerum Novarum teaches that wages and working conditions must respect human dignity, justice, family life, and the moral limits of employer power.

keywords:
just wage
working conditions
employer duties
worker dignity
family support
labor rights


summary: Quadragesimo Anno teaches that ownership has both individual and social dimensions, so private property must be exercised with attention to the common good.

keywords:
private property
social function
ownership
common good
property duties


summary: Quadragesimo Anno gives the classic statement of subsidiarity: higher orders should not absorb what smaller communities and persons can do responsibly.

keywords:
subsidiarity
local responsibility
centralization
intermediate bodies
business associations
civil society


summary: Quadragesimo Anno warns against concentrated economic power, domination by finance, and economic systems that subordinate persons to capital or collectivist control.

keywords:
economic power
finance
capital
monopoly
market domination
social order


summary: Mater et Magistra teaches that wages, profits, employment, prices, and public policy must be judged by justice and the common good, not by market mechanics alone.

keywords:
wages
profits
common good
market
employment
prices
business ethics


summary: Mater et Magistra reaffirms private ownership, including productive property, while tying ownership to freedom, responsibility, and the social order.

keywords:
private property
productive goods
ownership
initiative
economic freedom
social order


summary: Mater et Magistra applies subsidiarity to public ownership and economic enterprise, warning against unnecessary concentration of economic power.

keywords:
subsidiarity
public ownership
enterprise
economic power
state enterprise
responsibility


summary: Pacem in Terris presents economic rights: opportunity to work, personal initiative, just working conditions, adequate wages, property, and association.

keywords:
economic rights
work
personal initiative
just wage
property
association
business


summary: Pacem in Terris links worker dignity to adequate wages and says private ownership entails a social obligation.

keywords:
worker dignity
adequate wage
private property
social obligation
economic justice


summary: Populorum Progressio teaches that private property is legitimate but not absolute; ownership must serve the universal destination of goods and human development.

keywords:
private property
universal destination of goods
development
ownership limits
economic justice


summary: Populorum Progressio criticizes unjust trade relations and insists that international economic exchange must be ordered by justice, not raw bargaining power.

keywords:
trade justice
international trade
development
fair exchange
economic power
global markets


summary: Octogesima Adveniens calls local Christian communities to analyze social and economic realities concretely and act responsibly rather than applying slogans mechanically.

keywords:
social discernment
local responsibility
economic realities
Christian action
prudence


summary: Octogesima Adveniens warns that ideologies and economic systems must be judged by their treatment of persons, freedom, justice, and participation.

keywords:
economic systems
ideology
freedom
justice
participation
human person


summary: Sollicitudo Rei Socialis describes structures of sin and calls for conversion, solidarity, and responsibility in economic and political systems.

keywords:
structures of sin
solidarity
economic systems
conversion
social responsibility
development


summary: Sollicitudo Rei Socialis links private property, the universal destination of goods, and solidarity in the pursuit of authentic development.

keywords:
private property
universal destination of goods
solidarity
development
common good


summary: Centesimus Annus recognizes the market's efficiency for some needs while insisting that fundamental human needs and worker dignity cannot be abandoned to purchasing power alone.

keywords:
market economy
fundamental needs
worker dignity
purchasing power
justice
business


summary: Centesimus Annus recognizes profit as one sign of a healthy firm but says the purpose of business is a community of persons serving society, not profit alone.

keywords:
profit
business firm
community of persons
stakeholders
worker dignity
social purpose


summary: Centesimus Annus warns against consumerism and says production, consumption, savings, and investment choices require a true view of the human person.

keywords:
consumerism
investment
production
consumption
business ethics
human person


summary: Caritas in Veritate presents justice and the common good as practical criteria for charity in social, economic, and political life.

keywords:
justice
common good
charity in truth
economic life
social doctrine


summary: Caritas in Veritate calls for a renewed understanding of business enterprise, where managers are responsible to workers, customers, suppliers, communities, and the environment, not only investors.

keywords:
business enterprise
stakeholders
social responsibility
investors
workers
suppliers
environment


summary: Caritas in Veritate argues that finance and economy need ethical reasoning, transparency, and institutions that promote integral human development.

keywords:
finance
ethics
transparency
development
economic institutions
business ethics


summary: Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones teaches that markets and finance require ethical foundations because technical efficiency alone cannot secure human development or the common good.

keywords:
finance ethics
markets
common good
human development
economic efficiency
moral foundations


summary: Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones criticizes speculative finance, exploitation of unequal positions, and profit-seeking that damages others or the common good.

keywords:
speculation
financial markets
profit
exploitation
common good
market abuse


summary: Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones calls for ethical financial regulation, compliance, and institutional practices that protect savers, families, and the real economy.

keywords:
compliance
financial regulation
savers
families
real economy
fiduciary duty


summary: Magnifica Humanitas frames digitalization, artificial intelligence, and robotics as transformative powers that require discernment, regulation, and direction toward human dignity and the common good.

keywords:
artificial intelligence
robotics
digitalization
technology governance
human dignity
common good


summary: Magnifica Humanitas warns against technological projects driven by self-assertion, profit, performance, and control, and calls scientists, entrepreneurs, workers, educators, and legislators to shared responsibility.

keywords:
Babel
profit
performance
entrepreneurs
shared responsibility
technology ethics


summary: Magnifica Humanitas applies subsidiarity to the digital revolution by naming major technology companies and platforms as de facto powers that must act transparently, accountably, and for the common good.

keywords:
subsidiarity
platform power
technology companies
data power
accountability
common good


summary: Magnifica Humanitas teaches that AI used in employment, credit, public services, reputation, data, and public goods needs accountability, oversight, participation, subsidiarity, and attention to data as a shared good.

keywords:
AI governance
employment decisions
credit decisions
data ownership
accountability
subsidiarity
common good


summary: Magnifica Humanitas applies Catholic social teaching on work to automation and AI, requiring worker-centered systems, protection from exploitation, retraining, participation, and corporate commitment to dignified work.

keywords:
work
automation
retraining
worker participation
corporate responsibility
dignified jobs
labor


summary: Magnifica Humanitas says justice belongs to every phase of economic activity and gives practical criteria for AI-era economies: transparency, accountability, inclusion, access, equity, and oversight of algorithmic decisions.

keywords:
economic justice
algorithmic decisions
transparency
accountability
inclusion
equity
oversight


summary: Magnifica Humanitas identifies hidden labor in data labeling, model training, content moderation, resource extraction, due diligence, and supply chains as moral tests for the digital economy and AI transformation.

keywords:
digital labor
data labeling
model training
content moderation
supply chains
due diligence
new slavery


summary: Magnifica Humanitas rejects delegating lethal or irreversible decisions to artificial systems and requires identifiable responsibility, human control, civilian protection, and international rules for AI in warfare.

keywords:
AI weapons
autonomous weapons
human control
responsibility
civilian protection
war ethics
international regulation


summary: Magnifica Humanitas calls every technical and economic decision a matter for discernment, asking whether AI promotes justice and participation or concentrates wealth and power, and urging scrutiny of digital supply chains and hidden working conditions.

keywords:
business discernment
technical decisions
economic decisions
wealth concentration
participation
digital supply chains
working conditions


location: Genesis 1:26-27

summary: Genesis grounds the dignity and vocation of every human person in humanity's creation in the image and likeness of God.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Genesis
creation
human dignity
image of God
imago Dei
human person


location: Genesis 2:7

summary: Genesis presents the human person as formed from the earth and given life by God, holding bodily creatureliness and divine gift together.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Genesis
creation
body and soul
breath of life
human person


location: Genesis 3:1-24

summary: The account of the fall depicts mistrust, disobedience, shame, fractured relationships, and exile while preserving God's continuing care for humanity.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Genesis
fall
original sin
temptation
disobedience
redemption


summary: The Decalogue orders covenant life through worship of God and duties toward parents, life, marriage, property, truth, and rightly ordered desire.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Exodus
Ten Commandments
Decalogue
moral law
worship
truthfulness


location: Deuteronomy 6:4-9

summary: The Shema calls God's people to wholehearted love of God and to transmit covenant teaching diligently within daily family and communal life.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Deuteronomy
Shema
love of God
formation
family
education


summary: The psalm recognizes God's intimate knowledge and care for human life before birth, supporting reflection on creaturely dependence and the dignity of unborn life.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Psalms
womb
unborn life
human dignity
creation
providence


location: Micah 6:8

summary: Micah summarizes covenant faithfulness as doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Micah
justice
mercy
humility
moral life


location: Matthew 5:1-12

summary: The Beatitudes describe the blessed life of Christ's disciples through humility, mercy, purity of heart, peacemaking, hunger for justice, and fidelity under persecution.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Matthew
Beatitudes
discipleship
mercy
peacemaking
justice


location: Matthew 5:13-16

summary: Jesus calls disciples salt and light, linking faithful witness with good works that direct praise to God rather than self-promotion.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Matthew
salt and light
witness
good works
mission


location: Matthew 6:9-13

summary: The Lord's Prayer orders Christian prayer toward God's holiness and kingdom, daily dependence, forgiveness, and deliverance from evil.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Matthew
Lord's Prayer
Our Father
prayer
forgiveness
kingdom of God


summary: Jesus identifies love of God and love of neighbor as the two great commandments on which the law and the prophets depend.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Matthew
greatest commandment
love of God
love of neighbor
moral law


summary: The judgment of the nations connects service to people who are hungry, ill, imprisoned, displaced, or otherwise vulnerable with service to Christ.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Matthew
works of mercy
poor
vulnerable
judgment
solidarity


summary: At the Last Supper Jesus gives bread and wine as his body and blood and connects the cup with the covenant and forgiveness of sins.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Matthew
Last Supper
Eucharist
body and blood
covenant
sacrament


summary: The parable of the Good Samaritan makes neighbor-love concrete through merciful action that crosses social boundaries and responds to immediate suffering.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Luke
Good Samaritan
neighbor
mercy
solidarity
care


summary: John's prologue presents the eternal Word as divine, active in creation, the source of life and light, and truly incarnate in Jesus Christ.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
John
Word
Logos
Incarnation
Christ
creation


summary: Jesus describes God's saving love for the world through the gift of the Son, whose mission is salvation rather than condemnation.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
John
salvation
love of God
Son of God
eternal life


summary: Jesus gives his disciples the new commandment to love one another according to his own self-giving love, making charity a sign of discipleship.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
John
new commandment
charity
love
discipleship


summary: The risen Christ gives the Holy Spirit to the apostles and entrusts them with a ministry concerning the forgiveness and retention of sins.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
John
Holy Spirit
forgiveness
sins
reconciliation
apostles


summary: Paul describes moral requirements known by nature, the law written on human hearts, and conscience bearing witness in moral judgment.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Romans
natural law
law written on the heart
conscience
moral judgment


location: Romans 12:2

summary: Paul calls Christians away from conformity with the age toward renewed minds capable of discerning what is good and pleasing to God.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Romans
discernment
renewal of mind
formation
moral good


location: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27

summary: Paul's image of one body with many members affirms diverse gifts, mutual dependence, shared honor, and special care for members who seem weaker.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Corinthians
Body of Christ
solidarity
diversity
vulnerable
community


location: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

summary: Paul teaches that extraordinary gifts and achievements are empty without charity, which is patient, truthful, enduring, and greater than other passing gifts.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Corinthians
charity
love
virtue
truth
patience


location: Galatians 3:28

summary: Paul teaches that baptismal unity in Christ transcends ethnic, social, and sex-based divisions without erasing the concrete persons united in him.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Galatians
unity in Christ
equality
baptism
human dignity


location: Galatians 5:22-23

summary: Paul names the fruit of the Spirit as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Galatians
fruit of the Spirit
virtue
self-control
Christian life


location: Ephesians 4:25

summary: Ephesians connects truthfulness with belonging to one another, making honest speech a duty of communion rather than merely private accuracy.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
Ephesians
truthfulness
honesty
speech
community


location: James 2:1-9

summary: James condemns favoritism toward the wealthy in Christian assembly and joins neighbor-love to equal regard for people who are poor.

keywords:
Bible
Sacred Scripture
James
partiality
poor
wealth
neighbor-love
justice


summary: The Congregation distinguishes the equal dignity owed to persons with homosexual tendencies from the moral evaluation of homosexual acts and unions, requiring respect and rejection of unjust discrimination without treating same-sex unions as marriage.

keywords:
homosexual persons
gay Catholic
same-sex union
respect
compassion
unjust discrimination
marriage


summary: The Congregation directly rejects adoption by persons living in same-sex unions, grounding its judgment in the child's full human development, the experience of motherhood and fatherhood, and the best interests of the child as the more vulnerable party.

keywords:
same-sex adoption
gay couple adoption
homosexual unions
adopt children
adoptive parents
motherhood
fatherhood
best interests of the child
child development
vulnerable child


summary: The conclusion joins respect for homosexual persons with the Church's refusal to approve homosexual behavior or give same-sex unions the legal status of marriage, presenting marriage and family as goods society should protect.

keywords:
respect for homosexual persons
same-sex unions
legal recognition
marriage
family
common good
Catholic teaching


location: Can. 17

summary: Canon 17 directs interpreters to read ecclesiastical laws according to the proper meaning of their words in context and, when doubt remains, to consider parallel places, purpose, circumstances, and the mind of the legislator.

keywords:
canon law
interpretation
ecclesiastical law
legislator
legal meaning
context


summary: Canon 212 joins Christian obedience to sacred pastors with the faithful's right and, at times, duty to make their needs, desires, and informed opinions known while respecting faith, morals, reverence, and the common good.

keywords:
rights of the faithful
duties of the faithful
sacred pastors
opinion
common good
Church governance


summary: These canons describe the Church's teaching function, including proclaiming the Gospel, guarding revealed truth, teaching moral principles, and the responsibilities of the Roman Pontiff, bishops, and the faithful in matters of faith and morals.

keywords:
teaching function
magisterium
Roman Pontiff
bishops
faith and morals
Gospel


summary: Canon 915 governs admission to Holy Communion for those under specified canonical penalties and those obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin; applying it requires the exact legal text and competent ecclesiastical judgment.

keywords:
Holy Communion
Eucharist
canonical discipline
manifest grave sin
ecclesiastical judgment


summary: The Code closes by directing that canonical equity be observed and that the salvation of souls, which must always be the supreme law in the Church, be kept before one's eyes.

keywords:
salvation of souls
supreme law
canonical equity
Church law
pastoral governance